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Virginia completed its final obligation for the commonwealth’s $694.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) highway funding today. This means that the Federal Highway Administration has approved all 128 Virginia transportation pavement, bridge, and congestion management projects. The milestone comes six days before the federal deadline for this work to be completed. In…
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Not much has happened over the past summer. Our solar system still works (even when it turns up the heat) and our planet still rotates. But more importantly, you and I are still above ground. That’s right, the sky and the seasons change, but our lives on earth remain the same. Not a bad deal….
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Growth in the commercial sector in the West End has buttressed the Waynesboro economy from the worst effects of the ongoing economic slowdown, but that growth has come with a price in the form of traffic congestion on the Lew DeWitt Boulevard-Rosser Avenue corridor. it stands to reason that the explosion in retail that pulls…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Gov. Bob McDonnell ran for office as the only candidate with a “transportation plan,” a multi-page, single-spaced document that was good for waving to political crowds but which critics who read its content said had little substance. A report from the governor’s office last month on the progress of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Lost in the discussion over the merits of the Waynesboro Place rezoning and its potential impact on traffic in the already-congested Lew Dewitt Boulevard-Rosser Avenue-Windigrove Drive area – the part about traffic in that part of town already being congested. “It doesn’t function to Level C that VDOT would…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] You might remember all the hubbub over what they were planning to do with Interstate 81. They were going to pave over the Valley! That was what people were saying, anyway, looking at the monstrosities of plans that we knew as the Star Solutions proposal and the Fluor…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov.Bob McDonnell today approved the sale of nearly $500 million in bonds to advance transportation projects managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced a series of independent audits aimed at improving transportation performance and the efficiency of Virginia’s transportation agencies.
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Ask any of the residents of Northern Virginia to name the top two or three major challenges facing the region and virtually all will include traffic congestion. Yet with this well defined need and the election of a new governor who ran with a “transportation plan,” the legislature adjourned…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St., Waynesboro, for a regularly-scheduled business meeting.
